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Show LEW FREE PRESS. LEHI, UTAH anq HEARD around the NATIONAL CAPITAL fty Carter Field seems probable at the moment that title of the federal housing act the sec tion which provides for government guarantee of loans for repairs will be allowed to die when it expires by limitation Washington. on April It 1. inside information. But it also Inevitably leads to something else. There are plenty of people in Wall Street who are not declared in on these news sources but who like to pretend to be. Also there are gentry who have very poor or very prejudiced sources of Washington information. It is these last two classes that produce so much misinformation whose flat predictions and alleged quotations of what "the President said to Mr. Blank" cause so much grief when the poor Washington correspondent gets a telegram relayed from his paper's Wail Street correspondent through U.e telegraph news desk. Causes Big Laugh All of which is apropos of the "inside" information in Wall Street a few days hack that trie real reason the steel industry came to terms that certain with John L. big interests u,eie .'aid now to be certain that Lewis had been "sufficiently deflated !" This suggestion was received in There may be a sharp fight over it, and undoubtedly there will be a lot of outcry if his should come to pass, but the cold fact is the federal housing commission does not want it, though professing to be Wasiiington with whoops of merrineutral. The further cold fact is ment. Even labor news experts who that the house banking and curren- have a personal affection for Wilcy committee, which will handle the liam Green and who personally dislike John L. Lewis and others who legislation, does not want it. In the house it is very difficult for believe strongly in the craft union members to work up enough steam and hate the C. I. O. idea all agree that Lewis won an amazing victory and enough votes to override a committee. It is very different in the in his conflict with General Motors, senate, where a few outraged solons and has made amazing progress can force a vote on almost any- since. There is scarcely a disinterested thing, no matter what the commitobserver here who does not believe tee may have reported. But in the house a committee can that the C. I. O. now has its head smother a bill with comparative well under two big tents, entrance to which wa3 dubious just a safety, unless there is very strong few months highly ago steel and motors. sentiment for it and a clear maElectric was not much of jority of the hou?e members want General the measure passed. Which is a a surprise. It has been printed in rather difficult situation to bring these dispatches several times in the last few years that General about, especially when the government bureau or agency involved is Electric was very much in favor of what has since become the C. I. against that particular thing, as in O. plan that what it feared was this case. disputes between vajurisdictional a committee Even when reports rious craft unions, which would tie a bill, it is very difficult for memits plants regardless of its own up bers wishing to amend it to bring labor policy. about a test. A senator can proAnd there are few in pose any amendment he wishes to who do not believe thatWashington it is only and force any pending legislation, both of until time inose a question to not force be able vote. a He may closed shops. It may a vote, but ot least he can industries are five force a voice vote, and, if there is take two years it may takecome never Ford may Henry years he and doubt about the rejoinders, can muster a fair number to raise in but few here doubt that such movement as there is from now on their hands, he can force a will be in that direction. And the answer to it all is very But in the house the committee in Most of the business execucomwith simple. rules the charge, acting mittee, can pick and choose among tives want to make money now. the amendments on which they will Few of them are interested in fighting for a principle if such fighting permit votes. will cost them a lot of money, and The Logic of It provide a motive for both government and labor sharpshooting at The logic of the federal housing administration, in desiring to allow every detail of their business and this function of insuring repair loans private affairs. Especially if they to die, is rather interesting, espe- can be sure of passing any addicially as it is slightly contradictory. tional cost, with a bit of extra profit, along to the consumer. One reason is that the housing administration believes there has been Big Surprise such an improvement in building One of the biggest surprises of construction that there is an actual shortage of skilled workers in many the session of congress to date was places. To put undue emphasis on the ease with which the neutrality repairs therefore, it holds, would bill was slipped through the senate. Everyone had expected that there endanger the supply of skilled workwould be a long drawn out debate. ers for more important construction, and actually retard business There were present all the elements to make for this. There were at recovery. The other reason is that the banks least three clearly defined lines of have learned by experience now opinion. that these repair loans are safe and There was the group following sound, and that therefore it is no Senators Gerald P. Nye and Bennet C. Clark, who wanted to go very longer necessary for the government to guarantee them. much further than the bill as it In short, it contends on one hand was finally approved by the senate that the insuring of these repair did go. There was a proup typified loans is not necessary that just as by Senators William E. Borah and many will be made by the banks Hiram W. Johnson who did not want if they are not insured by the go- to surrender the old "freedom of the vernmentand on the other hand seas" doctrine, (one of the few that these loans, if encouraged by points on which these two gentlethe government, will lead to so men agree with Woodrow Wilson). much repair work that there will There was even a small group not be skilled workers enough for which was and is convinced that all the big construction jobs! this neutrality precaution is bad in You pay your money and take the long run, then tending to surbusiyour choice, but attaches of the render the munition-makinness to other nations and thereby housing administration argue valto leave our own country comparaiantly for both points. Meanwhile many concerns intertively unprepared when war docs ested in providing repair materials, break out, while at the same time and there are lots of them, are very increasing the preparedness of some much interested in having the possible enemy. power extended. They seem to think There was a group not quite as that this government insurance, if extreme, which feared that such continued, would result in more re- restrictionr as are embodied i.. the pair jobs than would the idea that Pittman bill, which passed the senbanks would make just as many ate, would tend to make nations now repair loans if government insur- buying cotton and other commodiance were withdrawn. ties heavily from the linked States All of which would result in conuneasy would tend to make them siderably more conversation on Cnp-it- look elsewhere for source.: of these Hill if President Roosevelt's Su- commodities. preme court proposal were not over- The Cotton Question shadowing everything else. is particucotton illustration The Get Weird Querie larly pertinent because Brazil has Some of the weirdest queries that been rapidly building up her pro"Washington newspaper correspondduction of cotton ever since the ents get from their papers result United States government began from Wall Street tips. New York's holding the world price of cotton financial district cer- up, so that Brazil could be sure of downtown tainly is tops in a lot of things. a good price for this staple. Shrewd Washington observers know ' There were some in the senate it is seldom indeed that a real news who believe that cotton is development is not known in some an essential war supply, not sections of Wall street before it is only because of its use for exploknown to half the officials concerned sives but for other reasons. At the here. There is money to be made time Runeiman was in Washington in Wall Street, with the proper insome of this group favored absoluteformation, if it can be obtained ly banning exports of cotton to belJust a little in advance of the other ligerents. fellow. And very frequently it is! As the bill passed the senate, the When a lot of money can be made President is given discretion as to out of a thing, it becomes too hot putting cotton, or any other comto handle as a rule, as was evi- modity, on such an embargoed list. denced by the attempts to enforce He is not given discretion to emprohibition, and as is evidenced by bargo products to one belligerent the difficulty of suppressing pooland not the other. rooms, and as is evidenced by racAs the senate bill stands, howing generally. Ricing and Wall ever, the President can very easily Street add to the "hot money" an- aid one belligerent and hinder the gle the love of most humans for other by his selection of the commodities to be embargoed. This gambling. All of which results in Wall Street may rise to plague some future iso frequently being in the position of President. C Bell SyndUite.-WSf rvlct. having bought and paid for advance roll-ca- ll roll-cal- l. WioOffii CAN PREVENTED? SUra of Recurring Disasters As Soil Erosion Servin- - Reviews Causes Plan- - for Future. Alone Rivers, Uncle Sam Iays Long havoc lof and the ECAUSE the super-flooscare tne irw.n rits wake have all but disappeared 1 JL ;, i'e ikiod area itsti; mcrJuvc Ohio and rapidly forgetting all about it. Ciuzms aU r.,; the but too. tncy are sissippi valleys probably wish they could, rr.e time. to keep thinking about it for T"! - v.ick-j-pn-a- d - K,,,r.,., The job of rehabilitation now that the flood has subsided is so enor- mous as to be unimaginable to who hus tie rover lived along levees. The task of simply clearing away the debris and making at least livable hundreds of thousands of damaged hon es is by far the greatest task of its kind that ever has faced the country. And this doesn't even begin to touch what is the most important problem that of long range planning and building to prevent such a disaster's occurring again. Salvation Army officials, the Red Cross and other agencies have estimated that in some places their work which is more of an emergency nature than that of the government will keep on for two years. There were about a million persons chased from their homes by the rising waters. They have to be returned or resettled somewhere. The layer of mud and refuse which has settled over the entire area is rapidly being washed away by an army of workers using mops, brooms and hoses for weapons. During the twelve highest days of the flood some 400,000 homes were damaged. It will take until the middle of the summer before all of those homes not beyond repair are even given a thorough cleaning at an estimated cost of $250 a home. Sees Necessity, of such a flood in actual money as well as in loss of life and morale demands that its recurrence not be repeated. Floods in the United States have been setting new high water marks year after year and the progress they have made in 1935, 1936 and 1937 is at last effecting a change in the flood control agencies so that they are beginning to think on long range construction lines, rather than planning simply to stop the gaps here and there as they mani- T;f ;'.V " ',' Nu V 22 Years Old. Control e fcf.cvvr would seem to he in ';e::-.a:.:.relief by the M,;.: .; ruction of many smaller resere voirs Lving along the headwaters ue ciiiiujw e f st: earns they may . to iscen tne impact ui uuu the out fe leveling lowlands by on also rat of flow. Often they are useful m the manuiaciure oi eiccuansouuu. t city and Deneni rivei flood control was first auempieu 200 a'er " the Mississippi more than of 1634 told Salle in years ago. La flood at Waters of Father the seeing j ' ' of .!.o!rai hs in the l.e: Vast i.l (!'n;:!'n service. stand burned out, ugly End Where the corn and a ioneJ. brai.s were iann-- down the sues instead of following the contours ofthe land there are new deep gald i t , j The t psoil has been eat n av. av do en to the clay by too raj drainage. Because as each r.ewa strata cf soil worn away bared new strata of less absorptive earth, the rur.off became faster and faster. The unfertile lower strata re- . 1 . Pattern ir-g- 1 - ' m m n . i .. r- - . cosmeticians in the wood and extract them with barbed tongues. But there are other, smaller birds that naunt tree trunks m winter-chicka- dee, brown creeper, and nuthatch whose beaks are not stout enough for the woodpecker's drastic technique. These birds simply search crevices and crannies in the bark, prying and digging out insects and small cocoons that may be hibernating there. cos They are skin specialists meticians. Science Service. Universal Newsreel From International) (Photo Some idea of the great clean-ujob which remained after the flood may be gleaned from this picture of a street in Portsmouth, Ohio. p duced crops and soon the land was deserted. Great winds came and licked the sterile lands once protected by buffalo grass or forest. They blew the dust from these lands in great storms to lay waste to better farm lands many miles distant. Then the floods came again, gaining greater momentum because the natural barriers were further worn away as the years rolled on. Some of the high marks were in 1334, 1913 and 1927. Still the speed and the destruction continued to mount until stage, but the floods were held back in those days by the heavy vegetation along the stream. These forests and grasslands have since been rendered far less potent by cultivation. Early records place the first levee at New Orleans in 1717. Within a year it had become a mile long and 13 feet wide. In these early days the king of France would grant river lands only on the condition that the receiver of the grant agree to build levees. It was the custom to require that all persons living within g seven miles of the river be on call to furnish labor for their construction. By a time shortly after Uncle Sam's purchase of Louisiana, which then stretched along the entire lower levees Mississippi, flanked the river on both sides for a distance of 340 miles. Now most of the lower Mississippi and the rivers which contribute to it are banked by them. The federal government was shy about mixing up in river and har- Justice Marshall in 1824 cleared up the situation. Within a short time afterward, army engineers were charged with most of the details of flood control and have continued to exercise author' over a large share of them ever . ace. Prevention Vs. Control. Great names were connected witv. pleas for a more attitude toward flood control in those days among them Abraham Lincoln. TNfW4 Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun in that time borAppropriations dered about $50,000, but occasionally ran into the millions. Despite all this early it has been only in recent attention, the government has been years that seriously thinking of laying the flood menace by All scene on Broadway looking toward the exclusive Queen City club in Cincinnati. d the last three years the s arrived. Annually, the cost of levees and dams rose, without effecting permanent relief. The first federal government flood control work started The cultivation of rural America in 1824 after constitutional rights of extends rou"h.!y over three centhe federal government along inturies. Within that time vast slopes terstate rivers had been established. once forested, with networks of in- This early work was largely supterlocking roots that once retained plementary to improvements in a large share of any rainfall, have navigation, such as dams with bven denuded of their trees. The canals and locks. Soon the federal coming of the plow brought with it bureaus found themselves further careless destruction. Yet with state and local agencies who can blame the early pioneers, in flood control, and several billions scanning what seemed limitless of dollars have been spent. horizons of verdant prairie, for failYet as the levees were built higher and higher, up to 60 feet and ing to grasp the effect their was to have upon genmore near the larger cities, they erations of the future? They plowed failed to reduce the annual flood downhill instead of around the toll. Flood prevention turned to slopes on lines nearly level. And reservoirs, and in unusual cases a billions of new gullies were added single great reservoir, such as that to speed the flood waters on their behind Boulder dam could be built to protect a gigantic area way. ReserThe cost of such voirs like this one are usually out policies is to be seen in the hun- - of the question, because the greatshort-sighte- I mischief-maker- s ? When the topsoil is lost, the runoff from rains is very greatly increased, floods are speeded, human suffering increased and more rich farm lands lost. How Dust Stormn Start. - ii reamerea i- Woodpeckers are surgeons; with their strong, sharp beaks they cut down to the haunts of J ft far-sight- aUcr-the-floo- . lo obtain this pattern send IS cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circlo w nousenora Arts Dept., 259 w. 4 hniirtppnfh St : New V,rlr v : i. ... .7 i I write plainly your name, zi dress ana pattern number. bor work until a decision by Chief VV" S5rf he Wi and nung! m pattern o:68 you wiii find a transfer pattern of a a'i hanging 14V2 by 18 inches; a coV chart; material requirements; i lustrations of all stitches useduuceuuns mi iiiuMimg wall har.e ine terrific cost fest themselves. The real necessity for flood control is nowhere made more apparent than in the records of the soil erosion service at Washington. Annually, these records show, losses of rich topsoil have in recent years reached three billion tons, or enough every year to fill a freight train 925,000 miles long! Most of this loss can be attributed to floods resulting from careless or unintelligent use of land ever since the days when the first pioneers began to work inland from the seacoasts. 57(16 wool ana it s ready to ' ol y pos-.'h- 200 g .bso-lutel- mountain Teservoir r"heat:or.s where it is to'make use f them for flood , ,'si he-:- , . .. '' i- red st LILLY By WILLIAM C. ' Protection for reservoir often lies m a:e of high value, where the to tne nveis. ct.es - Luiit dose often that. . you s not very i Kr3 ii w '' f- -1 nature aiding me couac ' The Kitten Twins, as much- -. as peas in a pod, P0e for your needle. Embroil plump, cuddlesome Pair and I0B have the gayest wall a panel that will be aJ?- any room! Just single Md outJi stitch m silk co in super-flood- d - preventing floods rather than attempting to control them. The year after the record flood of 1927 congress enacted a plan which had oeen submitted by Lieut. Gen Edgar B. Jadwin, chief of the nrmv engineers. It called for an outlay nf fW nno nnn r. extensions and mod neuuuns aaaea another $313,000 vv. "oiam.es on nana left an t... $272,000,000. gram expended the in thf nllmni years .c. The full 1923 pro- plan. ..six 01 tnO VUHCy lower Mississippi, where levees are being, strengthened and "raised in acs, da mucn as three feet i r ui mese tilings are only a beginning of the prevention movement. Added to them must be the appropriations of the present con gress and 0; other congresses to come, which may as well make up thctr minds that the ante for flood has to be raised and prevention kept up for some time to come An important recent application ot a dev.ee of considerable aid to both control and prevention "Nation n?Way-wasDrnmatic the use nf u - Cairfo;SeinP,Ue'" t wax nutes. isn't slippery, won't check. Full satisfacuon guaranteed it s an O- - Cedar product. A I h'lllimrrlBlitiirtW W Faith in Right Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let usto the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln. Why Laxatives Fail In Stubborn Constipation hours is Twelve to too long to 24 waK an" when relief from clogged bowels enoconstipation Is needed, for then accumrmous quantities of bacteria no ulate, causing GAS, indigestion many restless, sleepless "in1 RELIfcf. If you want REAL, QUICK J" take a liquid compound such lerika. 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